LSAT India Scholarship

LSAT India Scholarship - The Law School Admission Council (LSAC), which administers the LSAT India exam, has announced two scholarships for aspiring students who want to study law. These include an existing scholarship - The LSAT India Topper Scholarship, and a new scholarship - the Shamnad Basheer Access to Justice Scholarship.

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The scholarships are reserved for candidates appearing in the online LSAT India 2020 examination, which is slated to be conducted from June 14. The scholarships will allow candidates the opportunity to study at associated law colleges of LSAT India 2020.

The scholarships are explained in detail below.

LSAT India Topper Scholarship

This scholarhip is being awarded for the second consecutive year.

Scholarship amount: INR 4 lakhs

Eligibility: The Topper Scholarship scholarship will be presented to the student who obtains the highest score in LSAT India 2020.

The scholarship is for Indian citizens only

The applicant must be enrolled into a 5-year law program at an LSAC Global Law Alliance college

The award winner mustn't accept any other scholarship.

Tie-breaking procedure

If two or more candidates obtain same scores, the award winner will be decided by draw of lots.

Number of students to be awarded: 1

How to apply for LSAT India Topper Scholarship: All LSAT India test takers will be automatically considered for the scholarship, and there is no need to apply separately.

The Shamnad Basheer Access to Justice Scholarship

This scholarship will be based on the results of an essay competition.

Who can apply: The applicant must have finished or about to finish grade 12 and have registered and paid LSAT India 2020 registration. Also, he/she must be seeking admission to a 5 year Integrated law degree programme.

Scholarship amount: INR 4 lakhs

Length of the essay: Maximum word limit for the essay is 1200 words.

What is the topic of the essay: The essay must address the question, ‘Why is it important to have diverse lawyers in India?’

Claim: Having a legal professional class (lawyers, judges, etc.) characterized by diversity of gender, caste, wealth status, language, and regional identity makes for a more just legal system.

Write an essay in which you argue for or against this claim. Provide reasons for your position.

Format of the essay: The essay should be readable by MS Word, double spaced, 1-inch margins, and 12-point font. The applicant must also submit a cover page separately with the essay title and their contact information.

What parameters will be judged in the essay: The essay will be evaluated for quality and clarity of writing, persuasiveness, and degree of insight into the issue under discussion.

Can a student receive both this scholarship and the Topper Scholarship?

No. The candidate can receive only one of the scholarships.

What will happen to the essay submitted by the applicant?

LSAC Global will gain copyright over the essay and publish it on DiscoverLaw.in. Further, it may also be printed in a legal publication or blog.

LSAT India scholarships:

S. No

Scholarship

Eligibility

1

LSAT India Topper Scholarship

As the name suggests, will be awarded to LSAT India 2020 applicant who tops the exam

2

Shamnad Basheer Access to Justice Scholarship

Will be based on an essay competition organized by LSAC, with the winner taking the scholarship

These scholarships will cover tuition and halls of residence fees for the first year of the law programme, up to the maximum amount allocated for each scholarship. Any unutilised amount from the first year can be rolled over to the subsequent year of law college.

Kevin Washburn, chair of the LSAC Board of Trustees, said that they expect the scholarships will empower law students on their journey to becoming world-class lawyers.

A brief about LSAT India

In view of the nation-wide lockdown, LSAT India 2020 will be conducted in online remote proctored mode, assisted by AI technology. The exam session of the candidate will be captured via the webcam connected to the computer system.

LSAT India scores will be used by associated colleges and other law schools for admission to courses like BA LLB, BBA LLB, B Com LLB, BSc LLB, three-year LLB and LLM courses. Some of the important participating institutes of LSAT India 2020 are listed below.

Hello student cut off vary every year on various factors like the level of question in the entrance examination and total number of applicants in that examination, its difficult to predict exact score but as per previous year records 80 percentile or more than 80 percentile for 5 year law program at jindal law school.

No. A very important point to remember is that there is no negative marking. So, once you reach the end of the section if you haven't answered every question or attempted every question then absolutely go back and answer. You have roughly twenty percent chance of getting it right just by guessing so please save 30 seconds to a minute at the end to go back and make sure that you have an answer entered for every single question.

I think it's a misperception that it is an easy test and you don't have to prepare for iit and you can just walk in and take it unlike the CLAT and I think that's wrong. I don't think it is an easy test and I know it is not because I actually see the raw scores and it's certainly a test that you have to practice for so one thing I will tell you as far as percentiles and so forth is that even our highest scoring test takers over the years get a lot of questions wrong.

If you take the practice tests and you get 30 or 40 wrong out of 90- 92, they might want to give up but that's not necessarily the case. Again, you can get a good score with quite a number of questions answered incorrectly. So don't lose hope.

People believe that reading questions first is helpful and that will save time and that makes sense theoretically but my hunch is that for most people anyway that it is actually not going to work out very well because what is going to happen is that if you try to read the questions and then you read the passage and then you go back to the questions and you still wouldn't know the answer. You will have to go back to the passage. So you have to read the questions one time more than you need to. One thing to remember is that time is very precious in this test. It is a tough test and a good number of questions in the section and you don't have a lot of time so you have just a minute or two per question so you really should not waste your time. Time management is absolutely critical so reading questions first may work for some people and may work for some kinds of tests, our passages are not conducive to that practice because they are so dense and they have so many ideas in them and they are complex. The answers are not just going to pop off the screen at you once you read the passage. You really need to focus on the passage first and then go and tackle the questions.